West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will leave here for Dhaka on June 5 and join Prime Minister Narendra Modi who will formally sign the Land Boundary Agreement along with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina the next day.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Tuesday came out in support of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying how could a state government discharge its responsibilities when it was not allowed to have a say in appointment of a chief secretary.

Amid a row over the appointment of Delhi's acting Chief Secretary, former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday said an "atmosphere of confrontation" would be created if there is no coordination between the LG and the CM.

Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi on Saturday ordered the removal of Principal Secretary (Services), Anindo Majumdar, from services even as the row over the appointment of senior bureaucrat Shakuntala Gamlin as acting Delhi Chief Secretary deepens.

Opposition parties on Saturday attacked the AAP government over the row surrounding the appointment of senior bureaucrat Shakuntala Gamlin as acting Chief Secretary, and slammed Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his "dictator-like" approach on the issue.

Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit said on Saturday that the ongoing conflict between Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government and the Lt Governor Najeeb Jung over the appointment of a senior bureaucrat as Chief Secretary will not be beneficial for the national capital.

The war of words between Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal escalated on Friday over the Chief Secretary appointment row with the former stating that the name proposed by the AAP Government did not figure in the list of names submitted by the services department.

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Government on Friday accused Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung of acting in an unconstitutional manner by issuing instructions directly to the Secretary (Services) to give the additional charge of Chief Secretary of Delhi to senior bureaucrat Shakuntala Gamlin.

Hardening its position, the AAP government on Sunday rejected Union Home Ministry's panel of three senior IAS officials to pick one of them as the next Chief Secretary, asking the Centre to respect its choice of R S Negi for the the top post and cooperate with it to fulfil people's aspirations.

Bracing for a possible showdown with the Centre, the AAP government is likely to reject a panel of three senior IAS officers sent by the Union Home Ministry to pick the next Chief Secretary, sticking to its demand of appointing 1984-batch R S Negi to the top post.

Sports Authority of India boss Jiji Thomson has quit with immediate effect citing injustice by the Government over his promotion and the IAS officer says his departure comes at an inopportune time with the Rio Olympics scheduled in mid 2016.